Dinner at home with friends
Our home Northfield IL
Tasted Saturday, June 1, 2013 by jlgnml with 416 views
Introduction
A couple of days after my Bday and several friends stopped by and I cooked up several courses and we dug deep into the cellar for some nice wines.
Flight 1 (1 Note)
Several different olicpves and roasted Marconi almonds
Flight 2 (1 Note)
Taken from a Wolfgang Puck cookbook, his Frank's chino chopped salad with jumbo lump crab and caviar.
Flight 3 (1 Note)
A change to the menu mid day and created a roasted beet salad with herbed goat cheese and roasted hazelnuts. Served with Justin's bread with sweet butter infused with duck fat. Wow.
Flight 4 (1 Note)
It's early June and that means Copper River salmon on cedar planks, a little olive oil and black pepper!
Flight 5 (2 Notes)
Several cheeses, apricot jam and Justin's fruit bread.
Closing
Thank you to all who helped with the plating which kept the evening on a good pace. Thank you to my daughter Liz, who helped out running to the store when I did not have the right ingredients and she was creative with some of the dishes. Lastly, a big thank you to my wife Linda who had the courage to allow me to cook for our friends.
2000 Billecart-Salmon Champagne Cuvée Nicolas François Billecart 90 Points
France, Champagne
Clean fresh and youthful. Imagine saying that a wine is young at 13 years old.
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